The Roberts Cycles Handbuilt Bicycle Owners Club

I think this was from the time when Ron and Geoff were working together in Honor Oak. From when Ron left Gillotts to when he sold his business to Geoff, I believe all his frames were from his own hand. I don't know about Ron's later work.

Any more specific info on when Roberts were building for Condor please?

70s afaik

I'd love to come - I hope to meet you all at Hackney Peddlar at 5 (I'm working in Holborn all day sadly). I would be really grateful if you could confirm that it's definitely happening and any revised eta's, as I'll have to bunk off work early.

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Roberts ride tomorrow as planned from Bicycle Mews, next to Clapham Manor St at 2pm . With estimated arrival at Hackney Peddler N16 8AA by 5pm. Weather looks good.

A few of the bikes that came on the Roberts history ride Sept 2024. The 1936 Claud dates from the era when Charlie Roberts worked there. The couplings frame and the Dogsbolx are Winston Vaz builds, the green frame is by Phil Maynard and grey bike is an Adrian Parry build. Many thanks to Hackney Peddler for inviting riders to see their exceptional collection of Roberts, and other, frames.

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Part two

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Part three . The Hackney Peddler collection

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Correction. Green frame is by Adrian Parry not Phil Maynard. More on Phil frame identification in future VCC mag .

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The fork on the green one looks like the full length aero columbus max, anyone confirm this?
Very rare if so.

Owner said it was from Argos(no,not that Argos). Not seen one on Roberts before.

Hmm

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Make sense.. looks awesome.

So I came across this by chance. I recall trying this strange contraption when it was waiting for pick up at the Gloucester Road workshop. Apparently others were built but we don't know if was at Roberts or elsewhere. Another curiosity seen at Roberts was the one handed cycle - anyone got a snap or know of it's whereabouts?

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Some lovely examples up the thread. Here’s some of mine…

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I'm selling my Roberts-built GB track here if anyone's interested. Luckily for me I still have another Charlie Roberts track frame that fits me better than this one.

I've recently had my Roberts resprayed (see pics), and I have a query that maybe someone might answer: the bottom bracket has only one cable guide, for the rear mech, so how can I feed the cable up for the front mech? The small drill hole in the middle of the BB seems to be a drainage hole, with no thread, so no possibility of screwing in a plastic cable guide I think. Many thanks for some tips here. (I used to live near Roberts and raced on their frames as a 'junior' in the 80s).

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Could it be that this was some kind of cross frame for top mounted FD cable (I have no idea if this is a thing)? Or a TT frame for a single chainring?

Seems unfortunate that you've only considered this after respraying.

I don't think its a cross frame, and not a TT frame either, but you could be right. Many thanks for your input.

I would suspect it's a TT frame. I have a lightweight 753 TT Roberts, with the same Saba BB lug and guide.

Lovely paint colour! What was the colour code, and who did the paint job?

Nice colour. TT frame, I guess.

I'd get someone to rivet in half a plastic cable guide.

ime the plastic bb cable guides can be held in place by the tension on the cable, so just a small enough screw through the drain hole to stop it moving too much should be fine (doesn't have to be threaded in).

But I assume there's no head tube cable boss, which might be more of an issue. you'd need a band on boss in that case and could start looking quite messy.

looks like you have two top tube cable guides, so maybe the fd cable ran that way originally. Is there a threaded hole on the back of the seattube?

obvioulsy the correct and only answer is etap

Set up as 1x, then live a long and happy life together

This "Set up as 1x, then live a long and happy life together" may be the answer for me. The colour I specified for the paintjob was "champagne pink". So it seems it was possibly a frame for a tester...

...very impressed about the keenness to help here and the quickness of replies